Senator McKENZIE (Victoria—Minister for Agriculture and Leader of the Nationals in the Senate) (14:40): You've asked what our government is doing to prepare for and reduce the effects of climate-related natural disasters. We're investing $130.5 million to deliver the risk reduction initiatives at a national, state and local— The PRESIDENT: Order, Senator McKenzie. Senator Waters, on a point of order? Senator Waters: With respect, I asked specifically when the government is going to apologise to people facing— The PRESIDENT: Senator Waters— Senator Waters: these catastrophic fires and why you didn't— The PRESIDENT: Senator Waters, please stop it. You're repeating part of the question that came after the time the question expired. Senator Waters: That's because I'd like an answer. The PRESIDENT: Please cease talking when I'm making a ruling. You didn't ask all of that question within the allotted time. I apologise in advance if I wasn't, but I was taking notes, and because you went over the time limit the minister's entitled to answer the part of the question that was asked. Senator McKENZIE: I'm very happy to put on the record how seriously our government is treating climate change and its impact when it comes to natural disasters. As I was saying, $130.5 million to meet the need for authoritative climate and disaster risk information. We've got pilot projects in the supply chain and freight sector to be completed in 2019. We've published tools to support all decision-makers to take better account of disasters when they make decisions that affect our communities across all sectors of society, and we've got the Australian Disaster Preparedness Framework for severe to catastrophic disasters, which is a framework where we work with others to actually ensure it rolls out— (Time expired) The PRESIDENT: Senator Waters, a final supplementary question?